Reviews

I recently got a bit of the nostalgia bug when thinking back to the Goosebumps books I read as a kid. Goosebumps, and by extension the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark series, definitely introduced me to the genre of horror. After Goosebumps I moved onto classics like Dracula and Jekyll/Hyde, then on to the gown up stuff throughout my life and to this day. Well, this nostalgia bug got me wanting to re-collect the original 62 run of Goosebumps books, and in their first run printings because of the amazing covers. Perhaps the best part of the series was the covers. Next up;
#5, The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb
This book has another one of those classic covers that i'm sure I salivated over at the Scholastic book fair, if I didn't get a copy of my own that is. But, due to the cover, there is a bit of a bait and switch here.
Yes, there is a mummy. There are a number of them actually. But they actually play an incredibly small role in this overall story. The bulk of the book involves Gave and Sari being lost. Yeah, that's about it. Lost in the tomb. Lost in the Museum. Lost in Cairo. Just lost. Oh and kidnapped at one brief point.
R.L. Stine is definitely running along the fears a kid would have when in unfamiliar places/situations and there is no parent around to guide you. Every kid has experienced this at some point, whether it's taking the wrong turn at the mall or a theme park, or somewhere, and losing sight of your guardian, even if just briefly, the panic that emerges. That's what this book is about. But yes, some mummies do make an appearance, so there's that.
Also, R.L. Stine vastly overestimates the overall safety that Cairo might have, even in the 90s. It's very unbelievable any parent would leave kids to their own devices there, even just if for a minute. Maybe that's just me?
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